This is one reason why I tell people in my.sig at MacRumors that the Willow Bend store sucks, because they push so hard on you to accept less. I had a problem with something totally different: the case I had just bought from them for my iPod didn't have the right size hole on top, so my hold button wasn't reachable. I walked in and saw a guy with what looked like a manager tag, and he listened to my problem and assured me that they'd refund my money, but I'd need to stand in line at the counter first. So at the counter, I got the store credit push hard from two people, one of whom went to go ask the manager whether I really talked to him, when I complained about this uneven treatment. He came and stood behind the person and pushed buttons to make it happen. Unreal.
"Best" part? I had bought it less than 10 minutes before, walked out to a nearby bench, and tried it on my ipod. And they still treated me like someone who'd used it for weeks.
then this article should have been about how Sony should've pushed the MD-Data format over a dozen years ago, instead.
Back in 1992 or 1993, they came out with a little data drive, which would have been exceptionally useful for things like laptops. As far as I know, laptops didn't actually get built-in CD-ROM drives until Apple released one in 1996, so the MD-Data format would have been an excellent bridge format between desktop and laptop machines, with better capacity (140MB) and design than the Zip drives that were becoming popular (and absent the click-o-death, of course). While the unit I saw in a magazine was external, it appeared small enough to fit in the laptop floppy bays of the era.
The discs back then were expensive, but I don't think they were any more expensive than Zips were when they first came out. And, of course, volume production would have led to lower prices over time. And bonus: I think the external unit would also play MD-Audio discs. So immediately that could have built market share for that format, too.
The fact that a slashdot editor knows that the ponies from My Little Pony are from Butterfly Island scares the shit out of me. Or rather, I'm assuming knows, as no self-respecting geek like myself would dare look up.
It's just proof that, like the average/.er, you don't RTFA, where it explains this in excruciating detail:)
Look, there have been announcements earlier this year, there will be announcements in a couple more months. The Conroe Towers (ask about our move-in specials!) and Leopard may both be out in August, which is why we think they moved the next big conference back. Do they have to announce something on Saturay, just to give reporters something to do? Yah, I'd almost die at the thought of having to dig up an original story, instead of rehashing a press conference, too. So, you want them to announce something early, before they're close to ready? Apple doesn't want a rep as a vaporware provider. Apple needs to fix bugs in its current MacBookPro, among other things, in fact. So calm down. About the only thing ready now might be the budget MacBooks. Oh, and maybe a phone.:)
Nobody asks Microsoft or Intel or even IBM what their anniversary products will be.
I have a (grease)monkey on my back... seriously, I'm addicted to all the stuff I can do with that plugin. In fact, the first thing I thought when I read the summary for this was, I wondered if it was too intense to be written as a gm script:)
Okay, that plus I don't think I could copy my profile easily back and forth amongst my XP box and my FF for Mac and a Camino install also, and have it all just work. FF on Mac understood my XP profile just fine.
Unfortunately, FF 1.5 crashes on my Mac almost once a day, and the previous version did not.:(
So far, it's been better than my paid email hosting server side spam controls+thunderbird's spam controls at sorting out spam.
I have very few false positives or negatives, and I think the overall spam level has dropped, in that fewer even get accepted by the server. I was getting over 300 a day on my vanity domain, and it's under 100 now, with only one or two false negatives. This is after less than a week of testing. Of course, some of it may be that there's no catch-all. I actually want the catch-all, however, as I went through a period where I signed up for accounts and mail lists using names like amazon.com@mydomain, and I'm sure I've forgotten a few. Still, overall, it's great. They even knew ahead of time I'd want to know the SPF entry for it.
Would I pay for it? If they can beat what I was paying my old email-only provider, and not show ads, sure. If not, we'll see.
I figured it had to be something obvious I was missing:) And the book is on my buy list, now, since you're like the 4th person to tell me it's good. Thanks.
Why would the rover actually permanently die if it ran out of power? Surely when the Martian winter comes to an end, and the area it's in is flooded with sunlight again, the solar cells could still work, the battery could recharge, and it could wake up?
If you suddenly flood the market with all these extra resources, it will be entirely a buyers' market, and other sellers and the countries who rely on them heavily will start collapsing.
Can't you toss the PVRs on DMZs off your existing firewalls? and the equipment outlay for new Linux boxes with supported PVR security software, if they do exist, is probably more per unit than the cost of little PIXs, if you couldn't set up DMZs for some reason.
There's some important material there that gets little attention. For example, there are only two "home videos" on the NFR, as far as I know. You can probably guess that the Zapruder footage from the Kennedy assassination is one. But the other one is by Dave Tatsuno, (who just died a week ago) interned at one of the Japanese-American relocation camps during the Second World War. His "Topaz" video is a glimpse of life for some Americans during a dark part of our history, that is often forgotten or glossed over by the propaganda of the period. (Look up "Topaz," which was the name of Tatsuno's camp, in the National Archive search engine and see what I mean.)
If all of these people are offering sub-orbital flights, who are the customers? At least so long as these are just joyrides, they remain too expensive to attract a sustainable base. And I have a hard time seeing business trips really needing that much speed, either, not when you could videoconference for several magnitudes smaller.
Time-sensitive cargo, like organs for transplantation, maybe. But that's still a rich person's game. And the amount of time it takes on the ground before and after hitting a hub city still make it quite unlikely.
When the company particpates in Hands Across America, we will finally have our shiny happy people holding hands.
When I hear that term, I think of psychotic yuppies off their meds, calmly grasping the freshly-severed limbs of their children. But then, I live in Texas.
Microsoft already changed it's license agreement. Now, for all you folks who like to upgrade your computers, a new motherboard means you need to buy a new copy of windows for a new license.
Good thing they can't retroactively change earlier agreements.
Regardless, I wonder how many people will simply ignore the advice and leave their PC on 24x7?
Well, and another kicker is, many modern CPUs consume more power when busy than when idle. Especially since chipmakers wised up and started implementing the ability to idle down in order to decrease heat and, of course, use less electricity. So basically, this program is going to use more electricity even if every single person turns their machines off when they step away for more than a minute or so.
But you are right, I could have looked deeper than the front page we were sent to:)
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Don't forget that whenever we hear about new galactic phenomenon, the news is always millions of years old.
Which is why you felt free to post this under your account, Mr... Coward, is it?
MacWorld lists the Airport as #13 on their anniversary list of top 30 Apple products. So there's a little more recognition.
1. GreaseMonkey.
It's cool. Seriously! It's way, way cool. And I mean that. Totally.
Best plugin evar.
2. I forgot.
This is one reason why I tell people in my .sig at MacRumors that the Willow Bend store sucks, because they push so hard on you to accept less. I had a problem with something totally different: the case I had just bought from them for my iPod didn't have the right size hole on top, so my hold button wasn't reachable. I walked in and saw a guy with what looked like a manager tag, and he listened to my problem and assured me that they'd refund my money, but I'd need to stand in line at the counter first. So at the counter, I got the store credit push hard from two people, one of whom went to go ask the manager whether I really talked to him, when I complained about this uneven treatment. He came and stood behind the person and pushed buttons to make it happen. Unreal.
"Best" part? I had bought it less than 10 minutes before, walked out to a nearby bench, and tried it on my ipod. And they still treated me like someone who'd used it for weeks.
people strive for the gaudiest, most expensive and wasteful things they can('t) afford.
then this article should have been about how Sony should've pushed the MD-Data format over a dozen years ago, instead.
Back in 1992 or 1993, they came out with a little data drive, which would have been exceptionally useful for things like laptops. As far as I know, laptops didn't actually get built-in CD-ROM drives until Apple released one in 1996, so the MD-Data format would have been an excellent bridge format between desktop and laptop machines, with better capacity (140MB) and design than the Zip drives that were becoming popular (and absent the click-o-death, of course). While the unit I saw in a magazine was external, it appeared small enough to fit in the laptop floppy bays of the era.
The discs back then were expensive, but I don't think they were any more expensive than Zips were when they first came out. And, of course, volume production would have led to lower prices over time. And bonus: I think the external unit would also play MD-Audio discs. So immediately that could have built market share for that format, too.
It's just proof that, like the average
You mean like his new Nintendo 64?
You hold a grudge for a long time.
Really?
Can it fly in bad weather?
Can it transport apprehended suspects?
Can it be used as a traffic barrier?
What about the "community presence" factor?
Look, there have been announcements earlier this year, there will be announcements in a couple more months. The Conroe Towers (ask about our move-in specials!) and Leopard may both be out in August, which is why we think they moved the next big conference back. Do they have to announce something on Saturay, just to give reporters something to do? Yah, I'd almost die at the thought of having to dig up an original story, instead of rehashing a press conference, too. So, you want them to announce something early, before they're close to ready? Apple doesn't want a rep as a vaporware provider. Apple needs to fix bugs in its current MacBookPro, among other things, in fact. So calm down. About the only thing ready now might be the budget MacBooks. Oh, and maybe a phone. :)
Nobody asks Microsoft or Intel or even IBM what their anniversary products will be.
I have a (grease)monkey on my back... seriously, I'm addicted to all the stuff I can do with that plugin. In fact, the first thing I thought when I read the summary for this was, I wondered if it was too intense to be written as a gm script :)
:(
Okay, that plus I don't think I could copy my profile easily back and forth amongst my XP box and my FF for Mac and a Camino install also, and have it all just work. FF on Mac understood my XP profile just fine.
Unfortunately, FF 1.5 crashes on my Mac almost once a day, and the previous version did not.
So far, it's been better than my paid email hosting server side spam controls+thunderbird's spam controls at sorting out spam.
I have very few false positives or negatives, and I think the overall spam level has dropped, in that fewer even get accepted by the server. I was getting over 300 a day on my vanity domain, and it's under 100 now, with only one or two false negatives. This is after less than a week of testing. Of course, some of it may be that there's no catch-all. I actually want the catch-all, however, as I went through a period where I signed up for accounts and mail lists using names like amazon.com@mydomain, and I'm sure I've forgotten a few. Still, overall, it's great. They even knew ahead of time I'd want to know the SPF entry for it.
Would I pay for it? If they can beat what I was paying my old email-only provider, and not show ads, sure. If not, we'll see.
I figured it had to be something obvious I was missing :)
And the book is on my buy list, now, since you're like the 4th person to tell me it's good.
Thanks.
Why would the rover actually permanently die if it ran out of power?
Surely when the Martian winter comes to an end, and the area it's in is flooded with sunlight again, the solar cells could still work, the battery could recharge, and it could wake up?
Or did nobody think about a cold restart?
Or have you forgotten? Microsoft is no longer releasing IE for OSX.
If you suddenly flood the market with all these extra resources, it will be entirely a buyers' market, and other sellers and the countries who rely on them heavily will start collapsing.
Can't you toss the PVRs on DMZs off your existing firewalls?
and the equipment outlay for new Linux boxes with supported PVR security software, if they do exist, is probably more per unit than the cost of little PIXs, if you couldn't set up DMZs for some reason.
There's some important material there that gets little attention. For example, there are only two "home videos" on the NFR, as far as I know. You can probably guess that the Zapruder footage from the Kennedy assassination is one. But the other one is by Dave Tatsuno, (who just died a week ago) interned at one of the Japanese-American relocation camps during the Second World War. His "Topaz" video is a glimpse of life for some Americans during a dark part of our history, that is often forgotten or glossed over by the propaganda of the period. (Look up "Topaz," which was the name of Tatsuno's camp, in the National Archive search engine and see what I mean.)
If all of these people are offering sub-orbital flights, who are the customers?
At least so long as these are just joyrides, they remain too expensive to attract a sustainable base.
And I have a hard time seeing business trips really needing that much speed, either, not when you could videoconference for several magnitudes smaller.
Time-sensitive cargo, like organs for transplantation, maybe. But that's still a rich person's game. And the amount of time it takes on the ground before and after hitting a hub city still make it quite unlikely.
When I hear that term, I think of psychotic yuppies off their meds, calmly grasping the freshly-severed limbs of their children. But then, I live in Texas.
I have yet to see a price tag on what TPM modules cost the end user.
Since I don't want one, I feel this is an unwelcome tax on consumers that benefits the *AAs and the BSA directly.
Not the artists or engineers, mind you. Just the *AAs and BSA.
Good thing they can't retroactively change earlier agreements.
Well, and another kicker is, many modern CPUs consume more power when busy than when idle. Especially since chipmakers wised up and started implementing the ability to idle down in order to decrease heat and, of course, use less electricity. So basically, this program is going to use more electricity even if every single person turns their machines off when they step away for more than a minute or so.
But you are right, I could have looked deeper than the front page we were sent to